Posts from Category: Book Reviews

A Few Book Recommendations

Feb

2010

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I’m early this week with the book column, but I decided not to wait until Wednesday.
Below are the February releases from members of the American Christian Fiction Writers. I have already read, and highly recommend, Jennifer AIlee’s The Pastor’s Wife and Christa Allan’s Walking on Broken Glass. And those of you who’ve heard me [...]

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Book Review: Waxing Poetic about Peace

Jan

2010

Welcome to my book review space – every other Wednesday I plan to post my thoughts on a book I’ve read. These may or may not take the form of a “real” review: summary followed by skilled evaluation.
Sometimes I may just “wax poetic” because a book moves my heart, whether or not it’s a [...]

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Book Review: The Big 5-OH!

Jan

2010

Filed in: Book Reviews Tags: Abingdon Press | Sandra D. Bricker | Sanibel Island | The Big 5-OH!
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Sandra Bricker’s The Big 5-OH! begins with a mood as bleak as the Ohio winter her heroine struggles with. Olivia Wallace, widow and cancer survivor, has never had a birthday that didn’t arrive along with some dire tragedy. Now 50 is staring her in the face, accompanied by sore muscles, deep snow, and murky days.
But [...]

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Quick Update and Book Review Monday

Jun

2009

Filed in: Book Reviews | Family | Life | news Tags: Eva Marie Everson | THINGS LEFT UNSPOKEN
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Earlier, I posted a review of Brandilyn Collins’ Dark Pursuit (highly recommended). I’ve decided that I need to do more of these, not only as a way to spread the word about great Christian fiction, but to keep my reading on track. Today’s book, Things Left Unspoken, is one of the best I’ve read recently. [...]

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Gearing Up, Influencers Need

Feb

2009

Filed in: Book Reviews | Contest Stuff
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Cristine Bolley once told a class I attended that successful authors spends at least 40 percent of their time marketing. Before publication, you spend it networking, shopping proposals, making queries, researching publishers. After publication, you spend it networking, speaking, signing books, emailing fans and review sites, maintaining a blog.
I certainly believe it. In less than [...]

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Book Review – Dark Pursuit, Brandilyn Collins

Oct

2008

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Tonight, I’m going to take a slight detour from the usual type of post. I promise I’ll put up a devotional later this week, as well as a report on the conference in New Jersey. For now, I’d like to introduce you to Dark Pursuit.
The back cover copy outlines the premise:
Novelist Darell Brooke lived for [...]

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